Mary's Market announces collaboration with The Bagel Place in Rockford

Monday

Aug 18, 2014 at 8:41 PM

Melissa Westphal

Mary’s Market announced a partnership this evening with The Bagel Place, which closed its doors in June.

The company posted the news on Facebook and said Mary’s Market will be incorporating The Bagel Place into its operations. It’s short on details, noting that the deal is in the middle of transition but that officials hope to start offering bagels at Mary’s Market early next month.

“We are working with Alice from The Bagel Place to make sure that those beloved bagels will still be a Rockford tradition,” the post reads.

The Bagel Place, 3600 E. State St., had been open for more than 30 years. A note posted on the door at the time had hinted that the closure might not be the end of its story.

Stephanie Koch and her husband, Aaron, and her in-laws, Dave and Judy Koch, purchased Mary’s Market LLC in February. The company has three locations in Rockford.

I have reached out to Koch at Mary’s Market to find out more about the story.